Show TF I REl lEl REMEMBER that when I was a child j. in reading Sunday school books 1 I used to remark that the small heroes heroes' and heroines of tho those e fascinating tales had been very very naughty until some f particular event happened which changed J the very human boys and aud girls into saints This comforted me not a little at the same time made me more heedless heedless heedless heed heed- less than ever for I thought that sooner or later I would do something particularly particularly particularly naughty get into great trouble then straightway become saintly a fathe la fa lathe lathe the Sabbath day book hook examples But time went on and nothing occurred to too tomake tomake make me mend my ways and I am still awaiting that potent something which is to make me more like my childhoods childhood's childhoods childhood's childhoods childhood's child child- hoods hood's ideal The only events which I remember o- o more clearly than others in my younger younger tJ days are the times imes when when I was particularly particularly particularly j bad or did something more absurd 1 1 than usual usual usual-Of of f course the weary weeks spent i indoors with chicken pox chicken pox scarlet fever whooping cough and measles are indelibly stamped upon my memory My most thrilling hours were spent upon the stage stage erected erected in n McGees McGee's empty store-house store operatic and emotional emotional emotional emo emo- roles suited me best I had 4 high aspirations high aspirations high C G was one one of them I reached that height after 7 weeks of striving but found like mo most t 1 that the attainment of my ambition was not as I had fondly dreamed I was disgusted and so no doubt was the A audience pres present nt on the occasion when r rI I thought to reach the topmost pinnacle of fame After this disappointment I J devoted myself to emotional roles and 1 my mind was entirely given over to the making up of ot thrilling plots for I not j only assumed the leading parts but wrote our plays j jOne One play stands out above all others in my memory The best members of our corps took part the 1 au audience d. d lence was an ent enthusiastic h one an and d 1 rr It iJ Z iL ii it we became so wrought up to to our parts that we determined to do our very best and I resolved upon a very daring act At the end of the second act I as Lady Idalia Vere de Vere had to faint I usually fell into a chair and took my ease but for this time I resolved to fall flat upon the floor In a rash moment I informed the company of my intention and they were carried away by my courage e. At last the time came for me meto meto meto to fall j the thirsty blood-thirsty villain climbed stealthily through the window my villains villains vil vil- lains lams never deigned to enter by the thedoor thedoor thedoor door his murderous-looking murderous butcher- butcher knife purloined from the pantry in his hand What must I do I looked down to the floor Hoor and quailed My head seemed y yards away from my feet teet and I already seemed to feel the thump as it struck the bare boards I could not do 10 doit doit it I cast a despairing glance at the prompter behind the scenes but he hest st sternly unrelentingly pointed to the floor There was no help for it so setting my teeth and praying that my skull might not crack I fell Oh great was the fall thereof My head came down with a terrible thud striking m my forehead just above the right eye Happily the audience did not dream I Iwas Iwas Iwas was hurt so the curtain fell amid deafening applause and even my bitterest bitterest bitterest bit bit- terest rival in the dramatic art cried she do it just beau beautiful I Those wicked boys bos however did not long remember my heroism for the next day when I presented myself at the storehouse with my swollen forehead all black and blue to play the part of J Sleeping Beauty the Prince said with withering scorn Well youre you're mighty much mistaken if you think Im I'm going f to kiss such a sight with a lump on her face that looks like an Easter egg My rival played the part and I went R F sadly home to have my mother bathe with Ponds Pond's Extract the bruise in my head which somehow did not pain half halfa a so much as the wound in my heart I I had begun to know the world Nan |